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Thank you, Professor Lee, for your valuable comment and 

sharing your experience and observation on the behavior of Chinese tourists.

For many years I haven't traveled so I am the last to be qualified to make any current comment.

Nonetheless, I like to say a few words about three ethnic groups, i.e. Chinese, Japanese and Koreans,

from the background of over four decades-long private medical practice.

First of all, one time from the late '70s thru 80's Korean tourists thru Europe and Japan behave badly

or in an uncivilized manner similar to the current Chinese tourists, perhaps not as badly.

In 1978 I joined one hundred other US cardiologists in a chartered airplane to do one week long

Japan tour followed by three days in Hong Kong, preceded by attending the World Congress of Cardiology 

in Tokyo where I presented a paper.

I was the only Asiatic in the group and was greeted first in Japanese whenever I checked into the hotel.

They apparently thought I was Japanese American. Then I heard comments from colleagues and hotel

employees every breakfast buffet time at the hotel to watch out groups of Korean tourists because 

no food will be left on the food stands after they go through indicating they grabbed everything in sight.

I felt blushed each time I heard that. Your description of the Chinese tourists reminded me of my old experience.

Secondly, in my private practice, Japanese Americans were best-behaved patients, and the Chinese the worst.

The Chinese were the most demanding, bold and in some cases uncivilized. The Koreans were in between.

Still among the Chinese, there were three different stereotypes depending on where they came from, i.e.

Taiwan, Hong Kong, and mainland China. Hong Kong is the worst, and Taiwan close to Hong Kong,

and Mainland China close to Korea. This is just a rough generalization according to my observation.

I had a Chinese associate, a lady doctor from Nan Kyung or Jing University graduate, for ten years

to whom I gave my entire medical practice totally free. She is still acting as my and my wife's family doctor

so that I may be biased. This Chinese doctor, my former associate, agreed with my observation and

prefers Korean and Japanese patients rather than her fellow countrymen and women because of

the same reasons so that she does not advertise in their Chinese newspaper.

What an interesting story/view, Dr. Lee, sharing much of it by myself! Indeed, there are many records on Japanese tourists and then Korean tourists who went through exactly the same path already as current Chinese tourists do but by the numbers, Chinese tourists are simply overwhelming to let them look much more visible, which is true in a certain way. But Aussy's situation is a bit unique, more or less self-inflicting wound of new(?) policy to welcome Chinese investment and different from other parts of the world I have to point out! Anyway, I feel Chinese are too many and also each one makes three times more noise/sounds by their language/intonation than average 'quiet' Japanese to annoy the people as one of my friends' comments.

Indeed, one of the jokes I share with my colleagues over the dinner is how to figure out the ethnicity among same looking Asians at the airport is " if you could recognize the voice/conversation among Asian groups across the hall, then they must be Chinese! But if you would need to cross the hall and could hear their talking before you cross the half, then they are Koreans. However, if you still need to come near close to them and barely hear, then, they sure are Japanese!

Friendship, as well as loyalty, is a different matter I learned. Indeed, across the board, the faithfulness of Chinese friends as well as the colleagues is the best in my experiences and learned the difference among three Asian ethnicities through the painful lessons!

For example, it is now almost 16 years since I came back to the US from Seoul and I still get the invitation from Chinese colleagues to their Congress, etc every year with no exceptions while the Japanese invite me regularly every two to three years to express their gratitude on my help. 

But, Korean colleagues???? 

I learned the lesson!

BB Lee

PS. BTW, the Korean Society of Biomedical Engineering is the only exception and they, the engineers, invited me a few occasions as the founding president through the years.

I wish I could give you a reasonable answer to you, Dr. Lee, as to

why your Korean colleagues have not invited you back home for lectures 

in spite of your pioneering work for Korean medicine.

The only consolation I could think of is what most bible readers know,

which is, Jesus Christ was also rejected in his hometown just as many great

patriotic Koreans were rejected and killed by assassins in their homeland 

after the liberation from Japan.

I am just glad you came back to the States with your career and reputation intact.

There is a well-known warning in this world, "Watch and beware of your own kind!"

A long time ago I learned that Indian doctors do the same thing to their kind, 

and so do the Chinese as well.

I guess that is what's called politics or perhaps jealousy.

Dr. Lee, you make me feel humbled! But all I wished to my own Korean kins/colleagues was to treat/judge me fairly, no more no less! Sadly it didn't go that way but rather 'one-way love' and no reciprocation. Further, the one who got the biggest help from me among many Koreans turned around to hurt me most as soon as I left Korea so that many of his own colleagues got upset like 'bite the hand to feed', I later heard. That was the last nail on the coffin to me turned me off completely 'no more Korean stuff!', no sir.  Honestly, I am too embarrassed to tell my colleagues and never criticized Korean colleagues through these many years!

Indeed your consolation reminds me of one embarrassing episode which made me spill the bean among American friends. Not many years after I got back home, I got a call from my buddy, Bo Eklof, then the president of American Venous Forum one evening to thank for the opportunity to him to visit Korea by the invitation with me to annual Congress of Korean Society of Phlebology I founded as a surprise. I was the one really surprised and further embarrassed to learn since they never invited me back to Congress. So I told Bo that they have never invited me back though I am the one who founded and put this society on the right track to become a member society of IUP when I was a VP together with Bo. Bo was quite agitated and felt so bad about how my own Korean protege treated me who took over society.  A few weeks later, Bo called me to report his visit to Korea and giggled saying " BB, I gave them hell enough so that I want you to forget about it!  Remember how jews rejected Jesus". Later I heard Bo openly scolded Koreans during his keynote lecture and also the welcome dinner on such shameful behavior only to undermine the image on Koreans.

BB Lee

As a Michigander, I would like to share this article by Mitch Albom in Detroit Free Press with you.
We have been through for the past 3 years and the worst thing has been happening at the worst time in our beloved USA.

God Bless! America!  KJ

https://www.freep.com/story/sports/columnists/mitch-albom/2020/03/29/mitch-albom-president-donald-trump-gretchen-whitmer/2933518001/

A bit surprised to your comments on Idiot Trump, Dr. 황 !

We all know this bastard has the brain maturation arrested at the level of Age 3 to age 5 years at maximum. So he is not capable to have insight nor empathy nor a sense of guilt. He is simply 'idiot' confirmed by the specialists based on many stark facts, period! His brain maturation failed to reach even to age 7 to 9 to the level of 'imbecile' way before the age level of 10 to 12 to become a 'moron'.

Once again I am amazed at such wise old Korean saying: 세살적 버릇 여든까지 간다 . This guy is the model of this description. 

You might wonder how I am so convincing? YES, I did have a very unique chance to learn how to assess the brain maturation level as an outside peer for one nasty incidence involved to one infamous surgeon - as a courtesy, I do not want to bring his name on public but many of you might have read on the newspaper years ago as a scandal !- who was investigated by DOJ based on the whistleblower. To perform the role as one and only outsider/non-military physician peer, I had to spend many hours to study including the doctrine of Austrian neuro embryology school/concept. Besides, we already heard one Yale psychiatry group evaluated thoroughly to declare his brain function is subnormal fixed to the age level of 3 - 5 years, based on the same principles.

So bastard Trump is mentally incompetent but 39% of the people voted for him, which indirectly reflects this 39 % is also mentally incompetent to make a proper judgment, I am afraid to say! Indeed, I was really surprised such many are a real fool and I am sure they will vote him again as a guarantor for another 4 years you bet!

So sad, isn't it, Dr.황?  That is the liability of so-called 'democracy' we all are aware of!

Lastly, I would like to remind you that this country belongs to and also run by the White supremacists, and most of them are so-called 'white trash' regretfully and we are one of the minorities!!!!

Warm regards,

BB Lee 

Thank you, Dr. Hwang, for the Michigan news.

COVID-19 is exploding there just as badly as here in Southern Cal.

It is everywhere around us. This vicious virus finally traps us all.

No one knows at this time how long this seize will last.

We, seniors, are sitting ducks at the mercy of this virus.

Our only guide for survival is indeed medical science which

failed in the 1918 Flu Pandemic and Medieval Pandemic.

Now we are finding out how successful our 21st-century medical science 

will be in fighting this Pandemic.

Let's do our bests in following their guide to the letter and to the best we can

for the sake of our loved ones and our remaining life journeys.

Even though our leader brought us into this mud, but I believe in
American people and system would get us out of this in matter of time!
Thanks for your comments! Subaenim and Dr. Lee!  KJ